A finger to the MPAA.
Tuesday, May 1st, 200709 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.
MPAA is trying to get this number “censored” and sending takedown notices to anyone hosting it, ranging from simple Blogs to Digg news items. Here’s a hint- numbers can’t be censored, or trademarked - this is actually one of the reasons the Pentium trademark was born(instead of a 586), because numbers are hard to “defend” as intelletctual property of any kind, and certainly as an encryption key, which is a natural use for a number - a mathematical operation.
Quoting an awesome Slashdot comment …
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This is merely a very famous (from now on, hint, hint) number theory curiosity:
09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0
is the hexadecimal representation (with leading zero to round off to 32 hex digits) of
13256278887989457651018865901401704640 decimal
which amazingly enough, is equal to the huge prime number
13256278887989457651018865901401704613 + 3^3 (i.e. + 27)
Astonishingly, the next prime after that is only 31 away, so our famous number can also be represented as
13256278887989457651018865901401704671 - 31
It is also very interesting because it is also equal to the product of the following prime numbers:
2^6 * 5 * 19 * 12043 * 216493 * 836256503069278983442067
Truthfully, when was the last time you saw any remotely similar number? Never, right? We better record this for mathematical posterity!!!
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